Trivia contest rules and questions will appear in the February issue of ATFP.
Answer 20 questions and win $20 - that is, if your club has the most correct
answers!

WFSC WINTER EXECUTIVE BOARD NIEETING - FEBRUARY 5

The meeting will be held at the Ramada Plaza Hotel in Fond du
Lac, WI. Anyone who is interested is invited to attend and is extended the right
of discussion. Contact WFSC Secre-tary Karen Weigt if you'd like to be included
on the mailing list for meeting details.

The WFSC has heard your pleas. In response, a WFSC statewide promotional
program will be initiated for October National Stamp Collecting Month. The
program emulates a publicity strategy that was highly successful in Japan.

The WFSC will prepare a set of eight topical exhibit pages aimed at
attracting the general public to philately. Participating clubs are asked to
fill the spaces within the pages that call for readily available philatelic
items. The completed pages, together with your own club promotional materials,
are to be displayed at your local libraries, post offices, wherever space might
be attained.

One set of pages per club will be included with the September
ATFP mailing. This year's topic is space, which complements the many new space
stamps coming out this year.

The
WFSC very much appreciates the donation of items received from Krause
Publications for WISCOPEX 2000 youth activities.

INFO
FLIER

The annual flier
will be updated and sent with the September issue of Across the Fence Post. It
includes shows and commercial bourses to be held not only within Wisconsin, but
also in areas that border the state.

If you want your
show/bourse to appear on the list covering events through the summer of 2001,
send details by no later than August 15, 2000, to: Karen Weigt, 4184 Rose Ct.,
Middleton, WI 53562-4339, (608) 836-1509, or e-mail karenweigt@cs.com. Include a
contact name, address and phone number.

WFSC
SUMMER EXECUTIVE BOARD MEETING - JUNE 10

The meeting will be
held at Diana's Confection Connection in Sun Prairie, WI, which is in the
Madison area. Anyone who is interested is invited to attend and is extended the
right of discussion. Contact WFSC Secretary Karen Weigt if you'd like to be
included on the mailing list for meeting details.

CLUB
MAILING LIST

An updated 2000 WFSC
member-club mailing list is available for direct-mail club show/event publicity
purposes. Request a copy from WFSC Secretary Karen Weigt. Note: the list is for
WFSC member-club use only

James
R. Johnson will serve as Central Region VP. Johnson is a member of the
Central Wisconsin Stamp Club and proprietor of Wisconsin Valley Stamps.

George Stolze Sr.,
member of the Northwoods Philatelic Society (Iron Mountain, MI), will take over
duties of the Northeast Region VP.

2000-01
SHOW'/BOURSE/MEETING INFO FLIER

The
flier will be updated and sent with the September issue of Across the Fence
Post. If you want your show/bourse to appear on the list covering events
through the summer of 2001, send details by no later than August 15, 2000, to:
Editor Karen Weigt.

2000 COVER EXCHANGE
PROGRAM The WFSC is again sponsoring a nationwide cover exchange program in
which all stamp clubs, philatelic organizations, and individuals may
participate. This is an opportunity for clubs with leftover show, commemorative
and first-day covers to reduce their inventory by exchanging them for different
covers for use as club auction items, door prizes or gifts.

The exchange offer
expires October 31, 2000, with returns being made to participants by
mid-November. Participants must submit 10 all-alike covers and a large 55cents
SASE. In exchange, eight different covers will be sent back. (The extra covers
will be used for the WFSC's youth program.)

Only unaddressed
cacheted covers bearing either pictorial or first-day cancels can be submitted.
A maximum of 20 covers can be submitted, and the cover exchange program
coordinator reserves the right to return covers considered unsatisfactory for
exchange.

Nominations
are now being accepted for the 2001 Wisconsin Philatelic Hall of Fame. The
deadline is December 31, 2000. Qualifications required of nominees are: (1)
contributions of a purely local club nature shall not be the sole reason for
selection to the Hall of Fame; and (2) a deceased philatelist may not be
nominated or considered for selection until three years after his/her death.

Send your
nomination(s) together with a statement identifying the nominee, a short
philatelic biography, and the reasons why that person should be selected for the
Wisconsin Philatelic Hall of Fame to: Karen Weigt, Secy., WFSC, 4184 Rose Ct.,
Middleton, WI 53562-4339.

Only WFSC member
clubs may submit nominations, and two other member clubs must second each
nomination. The nominating club is responsible for making arrangements with the
seconding clubs to provide those seconds. The nomination and seconds should be
sent to the WFSC secretary in one mailing

WFSC
FALL EXECUTIVE BOARD MEETING - OCTOBER 14

The meeting will be
held at Stevens Point, WI. Anyone who is interested is invited to attend and is
extended the right of discussion.

Contact WFSC
Secretary Karen Weigt if you'd like to be included on the mailing list for
meeting details.

The
exchange offer will expire October 31, with returns being made by mid-November.
See the September 2000 issue of ATFP for details of exchange rules.

CALL
FOR HALL OF FAME NOMINATIONS

Nominations
are still being accepted for the 2001 Wisconsin Philatelic Hall of Fame. The
deadline is December 31, 2000. For details of qualifications and nominating
procedures see the September 2000 issue of ATFP or request information
from Karen Weigt, Secy., WFSC, 4184 Rose Ct., Middleton, WI 53562.

On October 12, the
U.S. Postal Service quietly released the new Deer picture postal cards in
Rudolph, WI. The WFSC has produced a limited number of these cards that include
the First Day of Issue cancel and matching cachet used for its Deer stamp FDCs
offered last year.

To order by mail,
send $2 each to: Deanna Juhnke, 3701 Jordan Ln., Stevens Point, WI 54481. Make
checks payable to the WFSC. No SASE required.

Send $4 for a set of
two to include one 1999 Deer stamp FDC and one cacheted and canceled picture